But they don't string together to make a compelling philosophical argument.

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Was it -- it's not a philosophical argument.

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But there are two possible consequences to big box stores opening up (both of which have been observed in the US in towns where big box stores have opened) one is the increase in unemployment which one can still live with, on the philosophical argument that there will be more people free to do new things.

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Pedants might object that viruses are not truly alive, but that is a philosophical rather than a naturalistic argument, for they have genes and are capable of reproduction a capability they lose if they are damaged.

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The statement was an argumentative screed that laid out three philosophical planks as in a closing argument of a trial lawyer.

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This is hardly a new line of argument for Mr. Ryan, but rather is hard-wired in his philosophical circuits.

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Crawford means his book to be a philosophical manifesto for a dawning age: an ode to old-fashioned hard work, and an argument that localism can help cure our spiritual and economic woes.

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